{"id":646149,"date":"2026-06-18T22:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646149\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:44:15","slug":"inside-major-league-crickets-plan-to-make-the-usa-a-cricket-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646149\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Major League Cricket&#8217;s plan to make the USA a cricket power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another useful indicator of whether MLC, a start up league, is moving in the right direction is its foray into new broadcast markets every season. MLC continues to make meaningful progress despite the overlap with the FIFA World Cup this year. The league has retained broadcast partnerships across Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Central Europe, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent while continuing to strengthen its international footprint. More notably, this season marks MLC&#8217;s breakthrough into one of cricket&#8217;s most established markets through a broadcast agreement with Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another useful indicator of whether MLC, a start up league, is moving in the right direction is its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,175966,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-major-league-cricket-2026","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}